Thursday, March 02, 2006

Great, Now I Have to Hate Domino's

Seems that Thomas S. Monaghan has a bit of a bee in his bonnet for religion. Of course, he had to get some money together to finance his plan by selling pizza to people first. Now that he is a multi-billionaire due partly to the 'Noid, he can afford to spend a paltry $250 million on a Catholic town called Ave Maria near Naples, Florida.

Apparently, it's "God's will".

God, so it would seem, doesn't like condoms, Playboy, birth control, or any sort of shenanigans like that. These things, then, would not be allowed in Ave Maria. This sort of goes against the whole "separation of church and State" thing that is so well-established in the U.S. (can I get a huge "NOT"?) With Bush and his faith-based vouchers, his Middle-East crusade, and his prayer meetings with psycho Ted Haggard, I don't have too much hope that religion will be losing any ground soon.

The ACLU is freaking on a leash. See, Monaghan wants people to buy their home property, but he will own and control all the commerical land, thus allowing him to insert provisions on what to sell that will align the stores to Catholic ideals.

Oh, and just to state the obvious - Gov. Jeb Bush was at the groundbreaking and is ok with all of this. Answer me this, if you would... Exactly how many retarded politicians can be in power in a given country at any given time? It's a rhetorical question, but still....

Things I Doubt: Ray Comfort & Kirk Cameron's ability to put together a decent argument...or a decent sandwich, for that matter; Oprah Winfrey's judgment about anything; Jenny McCarthy's anatomical conformity, by which I mean, I think she has neither a brain nor a heart; Jim Carrey's status as a Canadian - am I allowed to unilaterally decline that?; believers in acupuncture and their ability to accept that it is a fantasy; and the justness of a world where I am not rich for my truly amazing humor but Reality TV "stars" continue to rake in the cash.